Using a discriminant analysis to classify urban and rural climate stations based on diurnal range of temperature and dewpoint depression

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2366-2379

  Brown, Paula J ^a   DeGaetano, Arthur T ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate records; Diurnal effects; Statistical techniques; Temperature; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFICATION VARIABLE; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE STATIONS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATASETS; COASTAL STATION; CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DEWPOINT; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; DISCRIMINANT SCORE; DIURNAL EFFECTS; DIURNAL RANGES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; EXISTING METHOD; LONG-TERM TREND; RURAL STATIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL TRENDS; URBAN METEOROLOGY;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY;

DISEASES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; DEW POINT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; MICROMETEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN CLIMATE; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149371262     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2458.1     Document Type: Article

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